Échauffour (French pronunciation: [eʃofuʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Covering 3,314 hectares, the territory of Échauffour is the largest in the canton of Merlerault.

[6][4] It can also be derived from the old French cracked ("split, burst") crazy ("beech").

The Échauffour Sports Union has made a football team evolve into a district division until 2012.

[9] In 1763, following a first scandal, the case Jeanne Testard, the Marquis de Sade is under house arrest for four months at the castle d'Échauffour, property of his father-in-law, Claude-René de Montreuil, president of the court of the aides of Paris.